As we continue to pray for awakening across our region, we wanted to remind you of 2 very important upcoming opportunities so you can mark your calendars:

1. National Awakening Summit (rebroadcast)-Feb 2-4 in a number of churches in our region, we will be rebroadcasting the Summit from Sept. We will host worship, prayer, and awakening message from the Summit Thursday and Friday night and Saturday. This is a great chance to re-connect personally and invite someone who didn’t have a chance to experience the Summit. For many of us, as we experience it for a second time, there are new insights and the message goes deeper into our spirits. We will let you know the locations as they are solidified.
2. 4 day mid-Atlantic intensive training April 10-14 Pastor John and Mark’s will return to Baltimore for 4 days of equipping. This will be for folks who want to continue to be equipped to go deeper and partner with us to awaken our region to God’s purposes. (location TBD)

We bless you all during this advent.

But Oh God, we confess that sex has become an idol in this culture. We have worshipped at the altar of tolerance redefining its meaning as acceptance, affirmation and promotion. Under the banner of freedom from the constraints of Your relational boundaries we are suffering increased sexual abuse, incest, rape, marital infidelity, pre-marital promiscuity, and experimentation with every conceivable sexual option. There is already great unrest and confusion among our young people, Lord. Even the church has bowed its knee in compromise seeking not to offend those who desire to pursue relationships their own way. We have too often forsaken the spouses of our youth to run after sexual fantasies and devalued the marriage vows through divorce and family destruction. Your people have bowed to intimidating forces that have threatened any voice calling this violence to Your values to account. Forgive us Lord, for our complacency and compromise that has created this incremental dilution of our resolve. On our watch, we have stood by allowing things that threaten the entire disintegration of the social structure You created to bless us. For this we repent.

Father, You know, many in our day ache for the kind of relational depth and commitment You have reserved for marriage. Yet such a longing can only find true fulfillment in Your ways. In all compassion we pray You will protect everyone from unjust attack and harm as we grapple with these issues.

We are deeply grieved by the dismissing of Your standards. You have been clear in Your Word, destruction comes to peoples who reject Your ways. We can see throughout human history Lord, that when a culture has decided to alter Your divine definition, design, and directives regarding marriage, this most fundamental of all societal building blocks, that disaster has come. No society abandoning Your standards has survived. You show us, the consequences of redrawing relational definitions will disable relational trust and disintegrate the next generations.

So, Father we pray Your convicting Spirit will move Your Church to its most loving response, to draw people to Your ways, respectfully preserving their dignity. We ask you to send breakthrough to our leaders, to those You have set in positions of authority to guard and protect our citizens in Maryland. Grant them wisdom from heaven to rightly preserve what You have established as marriage. Give our leaders ways to uplift the dignity of those who desire change without damaging the communities of which we are all a part. Send our leaders revelation about the gravity of the impact of legislating immorality that will destroy the fabric of homes, families and communities. May they be guided by Your truth. Break the strongholds of spiritual forces in heavenly realms and establish your Kingdom in our state. We raise the standard of marriage You have set and we ask that you preserve it among us. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen

Moravia Assembly Of God

4602 Sipple Ave

Baltimore, MD 21206-5755

CALLING EVERY CHURCH AND CONGREGATION TO AWAKEN IN UNITED WORSHIP, PRAYER, and TESTIMONY in order to saturate and blanket the entire region with revival/transforming prayers for the Baltimore region. Let’s raise the level of prayer in our own lives, our churches, and our region.

When the weather breaks, we anticipate that our gatherings will include prayer walking the streets of our communities.